• JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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    8 months ago

    Because spoiler candidates are responsible for the downfall of the earth.

    I hold Ralph Nader personally accountable for the state of the climate today. Bush 43 won Florida by a margin of fewer than 600 votes. Nader had 95,000.

    I was 15 in 2000. If I was 18, I probably would’ve voted for Nader, and felt like I was doing the right thing. At 38, I realize how naive that was.

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      8 months ago

      It could also be the fact that a lot of modern presidents aren’t fit for presidency as much as they can mislead the people. In a perfect world, you could’ve voted for Nader and not regretted it, because you’d have known that the people that surrounded you weren’t naive. Personally though, I feel like raeganomics was to blame for too many of America’s problems.

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        8 months ago

        The major problem — one of the major problems, for there are several — one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.

        To summarise: it is a well known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarise the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarise the summary of the summary: people are a problem.